Reading and Writing a Screenplay - Fiction, Documentary and New Media (Paperback, 3rd Edition)

Reading and Writing a Screenplay takes you on a journey through the many possible ways of writing, reading and imagining fiction and documentary projects for cinema, television and new media. It explores the critical role of a script as a document to be written and read with both future readers and the future film it will be giving life to in mind.

The book explores the screenplay and the screenwriting process by approaching the film script in three different ways: how it is written, how it is read and how it can be rewritten. Combining contemporary screenwriting practices with historical and academic context, Isabelle Raynauld provides key analytical tools and reading strategies for conceptualizing and scripting projects based on the impact different writing styles can have on readers, with various examples ranging from early cinema to new media and new platforms throughout.

This title offers an alternative, thought-provoking and inspiring approach to reading and writing a screenplay that is ideal for directors, producers, actors, students, aspiring screenwriters and readers interested in understanding how an effective screenplay is created.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The screenplay as text

1. What constitutes a "good" screenplay?

2. The screenplay as text

3. Ideas, writing in stages and types of documents

4. What does screenwriting share with editing principles?

5. Structures

6. Point of view: telling a story from a certain perspective

7. The scene

8. The character

9. Writing sound

10. Writing for documentary

11. New media, new forms of writing: towards expanded screenwriting practices

12. Reading a screenplay: reading modes from analysis to writing

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2019
First published:	2018
Authors:	Isabelle Raynauld
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	246
Edition:	3rd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-47676-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Creative writing & creative writing guides Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > From 1900 > Film & television screenplays Promotions Books > Promotion > JB Academic
LSN:	1-138-47676-5
Barcode:	9781138476769

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